What does Elon Musk say about Dogecoin?

Tesla CEO Elon Musk believes that even though Dogecoin was created as a silly joke, it is much better suited for transactions than Bitcoin . In a recent interview with TIME magazine, after being named TIME’s Person of the year, he said, “Fundamentally, Bitcoin is not a good substitute for transactional currency.”

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Why is Elon tweeting about Dogecoin?

The cryptocurrency that started as a joke can be used for Tesla merchandise. Originally started as joke poking fun at the crypto market, Dogecoin surged some 10% on Friday. Dogecoin rallied Friday after Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted the carmaker would now accept the cryptocurrency as payment for merchandise .

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How much Dogecoin can be mined?

When created, Dogecoin originally had a fixed coin cap of 100 billion coins and the block reward was set to halve every 100,000 blocks until block 600,000 was mined. After that, the block reward would be at a fixed rate of 10,000 coins until the 100 billion coin cap was reached.

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